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Peshowar, Pakistan

Pakistani women walk through the Shaheen Market in Peshowar, Pakistan, a conservative Pakistani city close to the Afghan border, July 4, 2008. Since the start of the American-led war in Afghanistan in 2001, the Taliban has gradually infiltrated the areas surrounding Peshowar, making the tribal areas and the Pakistani government administered areas more conservative; women who once walked around Peshowar uncovered, or at least with their faces showing, are now fully clad in burquas and heavy chador.